The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Naegelia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 408, Vol. II., the following hybrid should now be added:

N. achimenoides (Achimenes-like). fl. 2in. long, 1 1/4in. broad, the tube yellowish-rose outside, yellow dotted rose within, the lobes light rose. 1885. A pretty hybrid between N. zebrina and Achimenes gloxiniaeflora, with the habit of the former, but the flowers hang from the axils of the leaves as in Achimenes.

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